This two-day workshop will consist of various talks given by prominent female mathematicians in the field. These will be appropriate for graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in areas related to the program. The workshop will also include a professional development session.
This workshop is open to all mathematicians.
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This two-day workshop will consist of various talks given by prominent female mathematicians in the field. These will be appropriate for graduate students, post-docs, and researchers in areas related to the program. The workshop will also include a professional development session.

To apply for funding, you must register by the funding application deadline displayed above.

Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are typically made 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.

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This talk will introduce you to the study of groups acting on the circle and the moduli spaces of such actions. We'll discuss the role of these "moduli spaces" in geometry and topology, and survey key techniques, results, and open problems.

A symmetric space is Hermitian if it admits a complex structure preserved by the isometry group. In this introductory talk I will describe various geometric features of these spaces. I will focus particularly on some natural notion of boundary arising in this context, and emphasize the role played by these objects in studying rigidity questions.

We first give a general introduction to harmonic maps, especially from (universal cover of) a Riemann surface into hyperbolic surfaces, symmetric spaces, and singular spaces. We then explain why they are useful to study moduli space of surface group representations into PSL(2,R) and general Lie groups, and to study compactification of these moduli spaces. This talk will be introductory and expository. We emphasize on PSL(2,R) case to give a guiding picture and then explain other examples.

What we knew about hyperbolic geometry before we knew about hyperbolic geometry
Evelyn Lamb (University of Utah)

Location

MSRI: Simons Auditorium

Video

Abstract

Like violets in spring, hyperbolic geometry sprouted up in several different places in the early 19th century. But the seeds had been germinating for quite some time before then. We will explore some of the first investigations into the parallel postulate and its negations, from ancient Greece to medieval Persia to Italy in the early modern age. What were people able to prove about hyperbolic geometry before they even acknowledged that it could exist?